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Posts published in February 2009

ICC Decision on the Indictment of Sudan’s President and Possible Outcomes

Speculation is rife on the eve of the decision of the International Criminal Court (ICC) expected to be released on the 4th of March 2009, about the issuance of an arrest warrant for Sudan’s President, Omar Al Bashir. Last year, chief ICC prosecutor Luis Moreno Ocampo asked the court’s judges to indict Bashir for orchestrating what he described as a campaign of genocide in Sudan’s western Darfur region. Over 35,000 people have been killed and at least 100,000 more perished through starvation and disease. Sudan’s government has ruled out handing over Bashir and two other Sudanese citizens previously indicted by…